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(No Model.)

P. R. DE ESTENOZ. OLAPPER.

No. 482,570. Patented Sept. 13, 1892.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCISCO R. DE ESTENOZ, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 482,570, datedSeptember 13, 1892.

Application filed November 9. 1891- Serial No. 411,241. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANCISCO R. DE Es- TENOZ, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Clappers,which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification andaccompanying drawings.

Myinvention consists of apair of clappers, one of which is stationaryand the other rotatable and supported by the former and having a stringconnected therewith and passing through an opening in the supportingone.

It further consists of means, substantially as described, for supportingthe rotatable clapper clear of the stationary one.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a pair of clappers embodyingmy invention. Fig. 2 represents a front view of the same, one of theclappers being so mounted as to be readily rotated for winding theoperating-cord thereon.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the twofigures.

Referring to the drawings, A and B designate clappers, which are placedon each other, and O designates a cord, which is passed through anopening 0 in the lower clapper B and connected with the clapper A so asto be wound thereon, it being seen that after the cord is properly woundon said clapperA it is pulled through the clapper B, whereby the clapperA is rotated, and as it strikes the clapper B in its rotation thereon aclapping is eifected by the same in a convenient and decisive manner.

In order to support the clapper A clear of the clapper B while windingthe cord thereon, I provide standards, arches,or other bearingpieces D,which rise from the clapper B and have open slots E in the tops of thesame. Projecting laterally from the clapper A are journals E, which areadapted to enter the slots E, and thus have their hearings on thestandards D. When the clapper A is raised from the clapper B, it may bemade to rest on the standards D and then rotated by hand or by pullingthe string in opposite directions, after which by a proper motion saidclapper may be thrown from its seat and dropped upon the clapper B, whenby drawing the cord the rotation of the clapper A may be eflected, thestriking of said clapper upon the other one causing the clapping sounds,as previously stated. The under side of the clapper Bis provided with ahandle H, which has an opening therein for the passage of the cord 0therethrough, said opening communicating with the opening 0 in saidclapper. The ends of the journals G have connected with them the bellsJ, which ring or are sounded when the clapperA is rotated, without,however, interfering with the motions of the clapper A in either of theactions thereof.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure byLetters Patent, is-

1. Two clappers, one placed above the other, in combination with a cordwhich is connected with one of the clappers so as to rotate the same onthe other clapper, said cord passing through the lower clapper,substantially as described.

2. A pair of clappers, one of which has slotted standards and the otherof which is rotatable, having journals supported in said standard and anoperating-cord, substantially as described.

3. The clapper B, provided with supports D, having open slots E, therotatable clapper A, having journals F, and an operating-cord O, whichis connected with the rotatable clapper and guided in the other clapper,said parts being combined substantially as described.

4. Two clappers, one of which is provided with standards, each havingopen slots at its upper end, the other clapper having journals adaptedto be inserted in said slots, a cord wound around said latter-mentionedclapper and passing through an opening in the other one, and a handle onsaid first clapper, said parts being combined substantially asdescribed.

FRANCISCO R. DE ESTENOZ.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, A. P. JENNINGS.

